Eliza Garth to Celebrate New Release with Launch Event at Tenri

Pianist Eliza Garth celebrates her upcoming Albany Records release, Tour de Force, on Feb 9 at Tenri Cultural Institute. On March 1st, Eliza Garth, "a pianist who boasts an exceptional warmth, beauty of sound, and vocality of phrasing" (Boston Globe), releases Tour de Force on Albany Records.

The album features Garth's performances of the complete Piano Preludes of composer Sheree Clement, paired with Perry Goldstein's Of Points Fixed and Fluid, a work commissioned by Garth. An album release concert will take place on February 9th at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York.

Tour de Force NYC Launch Event
***A Composers Now 2018 Event***
Friday, Feb 9th @7:30PM
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 W 13th Street, NYC
TICKETS: $20/$10 @ door
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Eliza Garth (photo: Tatiana Daubek)
Pianist Garth and composers Clement and Goldstein first met as newcomers to the New York new music community in the early 80s, and have remained close collaborators since. Clement's 13 preludes were written sporadically over the past 35 years. Garth is the first pianist to perform the complete Piano Preludes, and this the first recording.

Clement says:
Over the course of about 35 years, I periodically 'checked in' with my wholly inadequate baby grand piano -- my first instrument, my musical home -- and wrote short, self-contained works that spoke to the ether - poems and short stories written 'for the practice room walls', for some future, unknown audience. These 13 pieces, between one and eight minutes long, speak with a personal, often private and poetic voice, querying, asserting and exploring. They range from epigrams to torrid essays.

Goldstein's Of Points Fixed and Fluid is intended by the composer as a challenge to the virtuoso skills, and stamina, of the pianist. As is reflected in the album's title, Tour de Force, Clement and Goldstein each bring a personal and unique language, and at the same time join the grand tradition of virtuoso works for the most challenging and complex of instruments.

ELIZA GARTH
Pianist Eliza Garth has achieved international distinction through her recordings and through concert appearances in the US, Europe, and Asia. An artist with a passionate voice and adventurous spirit, she has championed some of the most demanding works in the repertoire, including that of the present day. In the New York Times, music critic Bernard Holland has stated, "Garth ... has an exquisite ear for piano sound. One can think of no one better qualified to play this intricate, shining music."

SHEREE CLEMENT
Using intricate shimmering colors over re-imagined fragments of tunes, Sheree Clement builds surprising narratives. Her music unfurls, percolates, and nudges. Like a recurring dream punctuated by memory and flashes of insight, her music allows listeners to rediscover the present.

PERRY GOLDSTEIN
A composer of vivid, high-intensity music, Goldstein's various works have been called "an I-dare-you-contraption" (Total Absorption by Fanfare Magazine), "kinetic, percussive [and] pummeling" (Of Points Fixed and Fluid by the New York Times), "a raw-boned tour-de-force" (Blow! by the Buffalo News), and demonstrating "consummate structural artistry" (Motherless Child Variations by Music Vision CD Spotlight). Learn More